Forget About the Mandate. Let’s Fix Health Care

By John H. Cochrane – The legal distinctions among a mandate, a tax, a penalty, or a credit, and between federal and state powers, are important legally and constitutionally. But they are irrelevant in economic terms for this law.

Let’s stop playing lawyer and get back to economics and policy.

Opponents: Return to articulating the disastrous economic and health-care effects of this law. And articulate better ways to solve the mess.